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Triablogue: The Wolves Complaining Of The Lambs
"But how deservedly soever we complain that the doctrine of truth was corrupted, and the whole body of Christianity sullied by numerous blem...
Triablogue: A Response To Tony Cornell And Ben Machell Regarding The Enfield Poltergeist
Ben Machell recently published a book about the paranormal that's focused on the late paranormal researcher Tony Cornell, titled Chasing the...
Triablogue: Some Ways To Argue Against A Papacy
It's useful to think of ways to concisely address a subject.
Triablogue: Agnosticism On Controversial Issues Before The Reformation
Just as people are often undecided about religious issues in our day, the same was true in past generations.
Triablogue: Support For Reformation Beliefs Among The Pre-Reformation Hussites (Part 3)
Murray Wagner refers to how Petr Chelcicky "denounced the doctrine of purgatory...Chelcicky's rejection of purgatory has its precedent among...
Triablogue: Support For Reformation Beliefs Among The Pre-Reformation Hussites (Part 2)
Some of the Hussites held to "an outright denial of any notion of Christ's presence in the eucharist...In time, Tabor arrived at a eucharist...
Triablogue: Support For Reformation Beliefs Among The Pre-Reformation Hussites (Part 1)
In other posts, I've discussed other groups who were forerunners of the Reformation to some extent, the Waldensians and the Lollards.
Triablogue: "Firstborn" In Luke 2:7 And The Alleged Perpetual Virginity Of Mary
From Gregory Lanier's new commentary on Luke: "Also, because prōtotokos here [in Luke 2:7] is modified by 'her,' it registers at the huma...
Triablogue: How Baptism Of Blood And Baptism Of Desire Work Against Baptismal Regeneration
Advocates of baptismal regeneration frequently allow for many exceptions to the rule of baptismal regeneration: people were justified differ...
Triablogue: Charlie Kirk and chaos
I believe what we have witnessed in Charlie Kirk's assassination by an LGBTQ+ and specifically trans-friendly killer and continue to witness...
Triablogue: What's the significance of something like baptismal regeneration or the perpetual virginity of Mary?
I've been posting a lot on both subjects lately, but people often dismiss such issues as insignificant.
Triablogue: Does the unbelief of Jesus' brothers support Mary's perpetual virginity?
I recently heard somebody make that claim.
Triablogue: Baptismal Regeneration As A Gateway To Other Forms Of Justification Through Works
Adding baptism to faith makes it easier to add other things.
Triablogue: The Evidence From Origen Against Prayer To Saints And Angels
The mainstream view during the Biblical era and among the earliest extrabiblical sources was that we should pray only to God, not to saints ...
Triablogue: What if the brothers of Jesus were younger cousins?
My last post discussed some evidence for the consistency and historicity of what the New Testament reports about the siblings of Jesus.
Triablogue: Some Agreements Among The New Testament Documents About Jesus' Siblings
I've been discussing the perpetual virginity of Mary in some of my recent posts, and one of the issues I've brought up is how often Jesus' b...
Triablogue: Encouragement Coexisting With Discouragement
Paul refers to how opposites often coexist, such as joy and sorrow existing together (2 Corinthians 6:10, 7:4).
Triablogue: The Suspicious Early Silence About Later Marian Dogmas
In a recent post , I discussed some of the evidence against concepts like Mary's perpetual virginity, sinlessness, and assumption.
Triablogue: Baptismal real presence?
We're frequently told that we should hold a highly efficacious view of baptism or the eucharist because the church fathers and other pre-Ref...
Triablogue: An Easy Way To Date Opposition To Mary's Perpetual Virginity Before Helvidius
Advocates of the perpetual virginity of Mary sometimes acknowledge that there was opposition to the concept before Helvidius.